Competition and Regulation in Shipping and Shipping Related Industries

CONTENTS......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
EC Law and Maritime Transport: Preliminary Remarks --- Fotis Karamitsos......Page 14
PART I COMPETITION IN SHIPPING......Page 18
Liner Shipping, Antitrust and the Repeal of Regulation 4056/86: A New Era of Global Maritime Confrontation? --- Francesco Munari......Page 20
Information Exchange Agreements between Liner Shipping Companies under EC Competition Law --- Alla Pozdnakova......Page 39
E.U. and U.S. Competition Laws Compared: The Paradigm of Horizontal Co-operation in Maritime Trade --- Emmanuel P. Mastromanolis......Page 56
Competition in Liner and Tramp Maritime Transport Services: Uniform Regulation, Divergent Application? --- Lia I. Athanassiou......Page 83
Setting Sail on a Sea of Doubt: Tramp Shipping Pools, Competition Law and the Noble Quest for Certainty --- F.ilippo Lorenzon and Renato Nazzini......Page 107
Cooperate or Merge? Structural Changes and Full-Function Joint Ventures in the Shipping Industry --- Olav Kolstad......Page 130
The Application of EC Competition Rules to the Port Sector --- Lenita Lindström-Rossi......Page 152
Public Interest versus Freedom of Competition in Sea Ports' Privatizations: The Case of Greece --- George Gerapetritis......Page 166
PART II COMPETITION IN THE PORT SECTOR AND IN SPECIFIC MARKETS......Page 150
The Application of the EC Common Rules on Competition to Cabotage, including Island Cabotage --- Rosa Greaves......Page 180
Competition and Public Service in Greek Cabotage --- Alexandra P. Mikroulea......Page 198
A Maritime Competition Reading of Regulation 1408/71/EC on the Co-ordination of Social Security Systems in the European Union: Is the Current Regime Out-of-Date? --- Iliana Christodoulou-Varotsi......Page 220
PART III COMPETITION DISTORTING FACTORS......Page 236
Fiscal Aid for Maritime Transport --- Phedon Nicolaides......Page 238
Public Financing in the Port Sector and State Aid Rules --- Nikolaos E. Farantouris......Page 255
Tonnage Tax and Tax Competition --- Georgios Matsos......Page 278
Marine Insurance Regimes and their Impact on Shipping Competition --- Trine-Lise Wilhelmsen......Page 303
Protection & Indemnity Clubs and Competition --- Dimitrios Christodoulou......Page 330
Advantages and Disadvantages of the Parallel Flags in an International Shipping Context --- Xosé Manuel Carril-Vázquez......Page 350
PART IV FREEDOM OF CONTRACT VERSUS REGULATION......Page 360
UNCITRAL (Draft) Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea: Mandatory Rules and Freedom of Contract --- Regina Asariotis......Page 362
The Liability of the Sea Carrier in the UNCITRAL Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea --- Philippe Delebecque......Page 379
Freedom of Contract and Public Order Relative to the Legal Eff ect of the Hague-Visby Rules: Prospects of English Law and of French Law --- Yves Tassel......Page 388
Issues Arising from the Limitation of Liability in the Maritime Transport of Passengers --- Eleni Gologina-Economou......Page 398
Index......Page 412